<p>so i started lookign at colleges already- im a current junior- and i think i want a school where u can design ur own major. it seems to me that students who activly try adn design their own major will be creative, spunky ang in general more fun to be with.</p>
<p>is this a totally weird assumption???</p>
<p>well, that or st johns collge lol</p>
<p>anyway, this isnt about stats cuz i just want to try adn work now on maing a well rounded list for myself... thanks</p>
<p>My friend says that at Stanford you can create your own major, but there is so much redtape and other obstacles that it is very hard, to the point where it is not worth it. Make sure the college you are looking at makes it easy for you to create a major, and just doesnt say that it is an option. I think NYU is a college where you can create a major (someone majored in 'Happiness'). Remember, what you major in college really has little to do with the rest of your life. My dad went to a Masters in ME and spent most of his working life as a management consultant. Today I met an ER doctor who majored in history. Many people at Ivys major in random fields and can work for IBanks and consulting firms if that is the path they choose. Major in what interest you the most. Some colleges have interdisciplinary programs that combine some of your interests, but you need to know your interests and what colleges have those programs.</p>
<p>I'm not exactly sure if you can at Brown but I know that they have no core courses. </p>
<p>At TCNJ you can make your own major. You just have to make up a 4 year plan and proposal for the dean.</p>
<p>woooah, wait... tell me more about the person who majored in "Happiness"... was it like sociology and psychology??</p>
<p>The "happiness" major was more word of mouth, but he probably combined psychology and philosophy and sociology to write a thesis on the pursuit of happiness and what people do to be happy and why people are happy. That is my guess anyway.</p>
<p>At least one person designed their own major at Denison in the last couple of years (related to neurobiology?) that is now an official major.</p>
<p>BOOKLET - take a gander at Eckerd College in Florida - they may not post it on their website - maybe worth a call to an admissions officer - but when we were there they were pretty open about creating ones own major and strongly encouraged alot of study abroad as part of that process. Nice location too :)</p>
<p>booklet,</p>
<p>I think you'll find that the vast majority of schools offer student-defined majors. It's not always easy to track down from the websites, because it can be buried in the college catalog somewhere. One relatively easy way to find out if a school you're interested in has this option is to look at their Common Data Set (First question in Section E: Special Study Options). That will tell you if they have such a program. </p>
<p>What this won't tell you, of course, is how common it is, whether the culture of the college encourages it, etc.</p>
<p>Here's a link to a thread with common data sets:</p>
<p>We met a kid at Kenyon who had made is own major. It was in "Rap Music Studies." No, I'm not kidding. (I always wonder how his parents felt about paying $160,000 for that.)</p>
<p>conn college encourages students to design their own majors</p>
<p>Most schools will have this option. Like someone said though, the levels of red tape you have to wade through can be overwhelming.</p>
<p>I'm sure though, that you can adjust how much grief you receive from the approving body at a school by choosing a major that is offered at other schools (or looking at their concentrations within majors) and sort of modeling your proposal after that. I had a friend who created a biopsychology major at my school and basically patterned her course sequence after another program. She had no problem getting it approved.</p>
<p>I'm surprised "bigredmed" didn't mention cornell. You can do it there.</p>